having a SATA HD problem

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Ok I'm trying my first Intel build and I'm running into a strange problem...
I'm using an Intel D955XBK mobo and I have the primary HD on SATA0 and two
other drives on SATA 1 & 2. I don't want to run raid and I have the drives
set in the BIOS as IDE. The system drives comes up just fine and I've
installed the Intel drivers and XP Pro including all the latest updates. But
when I hook up the other two drives I run into some problems. I can see them
in the BIOS and I can see them in the device manager (it lists them as
working properly) but I can't see them anywhere else in the system. I tried
to add hardware but it doesn't detect them and I've tried removing them in
the device manager and then rebooting but I come back to the same situation.
Is there something special I have to do to run 3 SATA drives in IDE format
on this mobo or am I simply overlooking something obvious?
 
Have you partioned and formatted them?

This is done thru...

Control Panel
Administrative tools
Computer Management
Disk Management
 
Ok I'm trying my first Intel build and I'm running into a strange
problem... I'm using an Intel D955XBK mobo and I have the primary HD on
SATA0 and two other drives on SATA 1 & 2. I don't want to run raid and I
have the drives set in the BIOS as IDE. The system drives comes up just
fine and I've installed the Intel drivers and XP Pro including all the
latest updates. But when I hook up the other two drives I run into some
problems. I can see them in the BIOS and I can see them in the device
manager (it lists them as working properly) but I can't see them anywhere
else in the system. I tried to add hardware but it doesn't detect them and
I've tried removing them in the device manager and then rebooting but I
come back to the same situation. Is there something special I have to do
to run 3 SATA drives in IDE format on this mobo or am I simply overlooking
something obvious?
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Did you partition and format them in Windows XP? Go to Control
Panel/Administrative Tools/
Computer Management/Storage/Disk Management to do so.
 
hdrdtd said:
Have you partioned and formatted them?

This is done thru...

Control Panel
Administrative tools
Computer Management
Disk Management
Click to expand...

Ditto...
disk manager is very good to get to know. And, it will see any fixed disks
that the system detects at all, whether or not they show up otherwheres.
Also manually assign drive letters, etc.
 
Falco98 said:
Ditto...
disk manager is very good to get to know. And, it will see any fixed
disks
that the system detects at all, whether or not they show up otherwheres.
Also manually assign drive letters, etc.
Click to expand...
Thanks everyone... I don't think I've ever had to use disk manager when
adding a hard drive (of course that could be because I tend to reuse
drives ).
 
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